Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)
by mkl on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:31AM
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Girls definitely have better handwriting IME, and men and women differ stylistically too. When marking exams I can almost always correctly identify students as being male or female (or having learned to write in Chinese or Arabic, which each leave distinctive characteristics) before I see the name on the cover when I'm done.
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Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)
by MivLives on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:13AM
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What are some of the identifying characteristics?
Chinese has particular stroke orders that often carry over into English (e.g. cross the t before drawing the vertical) which leads to all kinds of differences when writing quickly, as the lines from the pen not leaving the paper are in different places. There are often also quite distinctive curving diagonal lines.
Arabic, being written right to left, requires quite a different hand position, which leads to very vertical strokes (not slanted to the right).
Some other distinctive features I've noticed are that beautiful cursive is likely to be someone Indian, and very small, fine, and vertical, likely Indonesian. I'm sure handwriting experts can tell a lot more than me.